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Peter Bosz has left Ajax to take up the role of head coach at Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga club have confirmed. The 53-year-old has signed a two-year contract that will keep him at Signal Iduna Park until June 30, 2019. In his only season at Ajax, Bosz guided the Amsterdam giants to second place in the Eredivisie and the Europa League final, drawing praise for an exciting brand of football with a young group of players. The former Vitesse boss takes over from Thomas Tuchel, whose strained relationship with Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke ultimately cost him his job. Tuchel led BVB to third in the Bundesliga, holding off the challenge of Hoffenheim to ensure automatic qualification for next season's Champions League. Dortmund were heavily linked with a move for Nice coach Lucien Favre, who built an impressive reputation for himself in Germany by turning Borussia Monchengladbach into consistent top-four challengers. However, the Ligue 1 side issued a ...

Jorge Sampaoli has been confirmed as the new Argentina coach after agreeing to part ways with Sevilla. The Casilda native has been linked with the job for months, and speculation only heightened when Edgardo Bauza was relieved of his duties in April after less than a year in charge. On the eve of his announcement, however, there were reports that the deal could fall through due to last-minute financial differences between the two parties. Nevertheless, on Thursday, the first day Sampaoli was officially allowed to discuss terms with his home nation, the Argentine Football Association has confirmed he will be taking the job with immediate effect. Sampaoli will be presented in his new role in a press conference scheduled later on Thursday at the AFA training facilities in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. The coach, 57, received his first taste of international football with Chile, whom he led to the 2014 World Cup before sealing their first-ever major title the following year with victo...

Arsenal have confirmed that manager Arsene Wenger has extended his contract at the club until 2019. The Gunners made the announcement on Wednesday after Goal had earlier revealed that the Frenchman had agreed to two more seasons at the helm. The new deal for the man who has spent over 20 years at the club was approved after a private meeting between Wenger and majority shareholder Stan Kroenke in a secret location on Monday. Details of the Frenchman's contract were then confirmed 24 hours later in a boardroom meeting, and Goal understands that despite widespread talk of a Director of Football model, the structure of the club is set to remain the same. Wenger's future has been shrouded in uncertainty for the entire 2016-17 season, with Arsenal finishing fifth in the Premier League table to accelerate rumours that a managerial change was going to take place. It is the first time that the north Londoners have failed to qualify for the Champions League under Wenger - a...

Roma have announced that manager Luciano Spalletti will leave the club immediately. Roma finished second in Serie A in 2016-17 in a season in which they said goodbye to iconic captain Francesco Totti. The club thus ensured automatic qualification for the Champions League, but the Italian has been consistently linked with the vacant Inter Milan job. Spalletti was also accused of mistreating Totti during his final campaign, but the club's president, Jim Pallotta, has placed on record his gratitude to Spalletti. "We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to Luciano Spalletti for the great work and for his important contribution to the club since his return," Pallotta said. "Under his leadership this season, the team won the most points and scored the most goals in the history of the Giallorossi. We wish Luciano the best for the future. "The club intends to continue its growth path and the new coach will share the values ​​and philosophy of the company, ...

Barcelona have confirmed that Ernesto Valverde will be their new coach for the 2017-18 season. The 53-year-old stepped down after four seasons in a second spell at Athletic Club last week and was widely expected to take over from Luis Enrique this summer. Barca had promised an announcement after the Copa del Rey final and a statement on Monday confirmed Valverde as the new coach on a two-year deal. "I have spoken personally with Ernesto Valverde and I told him of our decision," said club president Josep Maria Bartomeu. "He said he is very excited and very happy, that it's a great challenge to come in as head coach of Barca. "There is time to talk about why we chose him. We know he has ability, his knowledge and his experience. "He loves youth football and he has a special style, similar to what we do at Barca. He has philosophy similar to Barca's and trains the way we like to train." Luis Enrique's three-year tenure yielded nin...

David Moyes has resigned as Sunderland manager, the club have confirmed. Moyes informed Black Cats owner Ellis Short of his intention to leave the post at a meeting in London on Monday, a day after Sunderland's dismal Premier League season came to a fitting end with a 5-1 thrashing at champions Chelsea. In a statement Short said: "I pursued the services of David Moyes for a considerable period prior to his appointment last summer, which makes the announcement of his departure difficult for everyone concerned. "Having worked tirelessly throughout the campaign to avoid relegation from the Premier League, David has chosen to leave the club without compensation, which is testament to his character. "In the days ahead we will take some time for reflection, and then focus on recruitment and pre-season as we prepare for our Championship campaign. We wish David well in the future." Moyes himself said: "I would like to thank Ellis Short and the...

Atletico Madrid head coach Diego Simeone is refusing to give up on his side's Champions League hopes despite a crushing 3-0 defeat in the first leg of their semi-final tie with city rivals Real Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo thrilled the Santiago Bernabeu with another hat-trick to follow the treble that downed Bayern Munich in the previous round. It means next week's second leg, a match that will be the last European match played at Atletico's Vicente Calderon, should be a formality for Zinedine Zidane's men. However, despite the weighty deficit leaving Atletico staring at heartache to go with the 2014 and 2016 final defeats to Madrid – their neighbours also prevailed in a 2015 quarter-final – Simeone retained a steely determination in the face of his team's famed defensive resilience falling apart. "The second leg is still to come," he said. "Many people will believe it's not possible, but for me it is. "Football is marvellous, as un...

Jurgen Klopp believes Claudio Ranieri’s sacking is a sign of the times in football and that his own position at Liverpool could soon come under threat. While the former Borussia Dortmund coach has never been sacked in his career, he’s under no illusions that his job is as under threat as anyone’s in the Premier League. Liverpool take on Leicester, who will be lead out on Monday night by Craig Shakespeare, and Klopp is aware of how managerial positions in the Premier League are largely determined by short-term success. And he feels he needs to win something at Anfield to keep his job. ‘Nobody needs to remind any of the managers in world football about the business,’ he said ahead of the match. ‘And if we cannot win anything or even come close to big things over the next few years then it will be difficult to go for it. ‘Until now I didn’t understand it as I’ve always been on a long contract, as long as I wanted, and I have no idea why exactly it happened to me. ‘Liverpo...

Jose Mourinho has condemned Leicester's 'selfish' players for letting down Claudio Ranieri after he was sacked just nine months on from lifting the Premier League title. Mourinho turned up for his press conference with the initials 'CR' printed on his training top in dedication to Ranieri after posting a picture of them together on social media. The Portuguese coach was also sacked the season after a title win — by Chelsea in December 2015 — but said that was 'peanuts' compared to the way Ranieri has been treated by Leicester. And Mourinho saved his most scathing criticism for the players who are understood to have turned against the Italian. 'If some of the stories are true, it's hard to find words to justify it,' he said. 'As managers we have to cope with that. 'Probably the season started with the typical selfishness of others, people thinking about new contracts, leaving, more money, forgetting who helped them to reach a ...

Claudio Ranieri, the manager who led Leicester City to one of the more implausible success stories in history, has been sacked only nine months after taking a team of 5,000-1 outsiders to the Premier League title and a football miracle. Ranieri’s dismissal comes barely two weeks after Leicester offered him their “unwavering support” in a statement insisting there was no way his job could be in danger and pointing out that the club’s success had been “based firmly on stability, togetherness and determination to overcome even the greatest of challenges”. That now turns out to be a deception with Leicester’s Thai owners deciding instead that Ranieri does not warrant any more patience now that a team that won the league last season by 10 points is only one place above the relegation zone. Leicester could theoretically be in the bottom three by the time they play their next game, at home to Liverpool on Monday, and their FA Cup fifth-round defeat at Millwall has also counted agains...